Female Anatomical Figure Probably Italian, 18th century Science Museum/SSPL A642635-6. The covering of the torso lifts off to reveal the internal organs. They demonstrate a knowledge of anatomy, but are not detailed enough to have been used for advanced teaching. | Cambridge University

18th century anatomy model

Female anatomical model, Italian, 18th century?

Assembling Bodies

Wine Tester, 18th Century, Made by J & J Gardner, Mathematical Instrument makers, Glasgow. The glass balls were floated on the surface of the wine to determine density. | National Park Service Museum Collections

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Wine Tester

Portable Copying machine invented by James Watt in 1795. Watt published a pamphlet entitled ‘Directions for using the Patent Portable Copying Machine Invented and Made by James Watt & Co.’ Click on image to read more

The Prince de Conti's Planetary Clock. This remarkable Louis XVI Ormolu Planetary Clock (‘Sphère Mouvante’) — the movement by Jean-Michel Mabille and the sphere by Martin Baffert —circa 1770, is a tour de force of horological complexity. It is so charged with technology that it may be viewed as an elite 18th century equivalent of the innovative 21st century products of Silicon Valley or the best watchmakers of today.

89: Delft blue and white drug jar, ca. 1730, with a : Lot 89

William Cullen, who died in 1790 aged nearly 80, a physician, chemist and agriculturalist, was one of the most important professors at the Edinburgh Medical School, during its heyday the leading centre for medical education in the English-speaking world. As the most influential medical lecturer of his generation, he drew thousands of students to the Medical School, and people wrote to him from across the globe for advice and treatments.

Hilarious health notes from the 18th Century revealed #DailyMail

William Cullen, who died in 1790 aged nearly 80, a physician, chemist and agriculturalist, was one of the most important professors at the Edinburgh Medical School, during its heyday the leading centre for medical education in the English-speaking world. As the most influential medical lecturer of his generation, he drew thousands of students to the Medical School, and people wrote to him from across the globe for advice and treatments.

Auction, Sotheby S, Wrought Iron

A FRUITWOOD, STEEL AND WROUGHT IRON WHEEL CHAIR, LOUIS XVI. Sotheby's

Rare Carved And Polychromed Wood “Gaper” Dutch. 17th/18th Century. Gapers are gaudily painted heads that hang high above the entrances of druggists’ shops in the lowlands Amsterdam was once the gaper capital of the Netherlands with hundreds to let passersby know that the druggist is dispensing medicines and herbs.

This air pump by George Adams, instrument maker to the king, is the centrepiece of the pneumatics apparatus commisioned by George III in 1761. The arrangement of valves is copied from a pump made about 10 years earlier by John Smeaton, who later became famous as a civil engineer. The air pump can be used to remove air from a container - to show the effects of a vacuum, for example. Alternatively, it can be used to pump air into a container.

Reading, writing, drawing and making in the 18th-century instrument trade

A mid 18th-Century Continental mahogany domestic medicine chest with ornamental brass strap-work and inlay, of trunk style with domed lid and double doors to the front, the interior with marquetry decoration throughout and fenestrations to reveal contents of bottles, the doors with two drawers surmounted by fitted area housing four bottles, the central upper section partitioned to house a further five similar bottles and two silver canisters...

anatomical venus

Nautilus - Catalogo

Six 18th-Century English Delft footed, shallow-cupped ointment-pots, of differing sizes, three with blue stylized foliage decoration, one inscribed in blue for Fisher & Co. 112/8 Conduit Street Hanover Sqr and another for Waller & Son Guilford, and one plain - largest 4.5cm. (1¾in.) high and 2.6cm. (1in.) high; and two 18th-Century English Delft rouge pots, of cup-shape - both 2.1cm. ( 7/8in.) high (8)

Beautiful botanical drawing of Dandelion (Taraxacum officinale [Latin]), also known as lion’s tooth and wild endive, is a perennial herb native to the northern hemisphere.

William Kilburn worked as a botanical illustrator. He produced most of the plates in the first volume of William Curtiss Flora Londinensis, a field guide to the wild flowers of London. This was a serial publication that came out between 1777 and 1798.

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Two metal buttons showing an enema treatment, Germany, C 1701 (?) "An enema introduces liquids such as medications or purgatives into the body via the rectum – a once very common medical procedure. This enema was clearly aimed at flushing out the body as the button on the right shows the patient on a chamber pot watched by the physician. Not much is known about why the buttons were made or who might have worn them." Wellcome Institute

Buttons and Offal a surgeon administers an enema, then awaits results rare 18th Century buttons

The Smile Revolution by Prof. Colin Jones. The emergence of the smile of sensibility owed something to scientific innovation as well as to cultural trends. Modern dentistry emerged at precisely this time, with Paris as its most brilliant champion. Portrait is a self portrait of Elisabeth-Louise Vigée-Le Brun and her daughter.

Self Portrait with Daughter Creator(s): Elisabeth Louise Vigée-LeBrun

English domestic medicine chest, Mahogany, mid 18thCentury, 'spice cupboard' style on a custom built Regency stand. Medicine chest has applied silver fittings, and 84 drawers with ebonised lining and silver ring pulls. The armourial bears the arms of Henry Dawkins of Over Norton Oxfordshire and Standlynch Park Wiltshire and Lady Juliana Colyear who married in 1759. It has been suggested the chest may have been a wedding gift. The Domestic Medicine Chest Collection of Dr Anne M. Young. Christies